I’m sure the “good idea fairy” has dropped off a lot of ideas to you in the comment section but I can see that you’re making smart improvements as your business grows. Dumping a ton of money into automation can be overly risky business wise so I hope you come across some decently priced things at auctions in your area. I commend you on how you modified some things to improve efficiency. Thanks for your time in making this video.
The aluminum company I work for is probably the one that takes your scrap aluminum and makes them into new cans. I don't work in that specific mill, but it's always fascinating to see the process of how they're made.
In our county we need to recycle a lot of stuff and it is good to know how to reuse it. Companies like yours should get environmental awards. Thanks, it is nice to see how they do it, I have been recycling cans since 1988 but never knew they had to go through this process...
A fascinating and enjoyable video. In our county we are required to recycle many things and it's good to know how they can be reused. Companies like yours deserve an environmental award. Thank you.
@josephcrowley3460 Well, every one of those aluminum cans he's recycling saves enough energy to run a TV for 3 hours. That means that it takes a lot of energy to turn raw materials into aluminum sheets, which are made into cans. It takes significantly less energy to recycle a can, to turn into a new can. So, LET'S ASK HOW MANY POUNDS OF ALUMINUM ARE IN EACH TRUCKLOAD. MULTIPLY THAT BY 3, AND SEE HOW MUCH ENERGY HE HAS CONSERVED.
This is an awesome video! I don't think I've seen a better video explaining the process. You did a great job explaining things. I'd love to see more like this.
Came to say exactly the same! Seems like a lot of diesel burnt and duplicate handling of the materials. Even loading the bags on to the trailer before being sorted would be more efficient
They use the bailer for many items like aluminum siding, extruded aluminum, radiators, copper tubing, etc. Probably isn’t practical in this case from where the scales are in relation to the bailer. At least that’s what I see at my scrapyard.
Another great video ,and of course another idea of how someone else does things. Our local scrapyard collects a lot of aluminum cans . Their set up is similar to yours, but after blowing the cans into and filling a trailer, they drop the trailer at the conveyer and bring a yard crane and put a chain around the kingpin on the trailer. Once the doors are opened, the crane operator just keeps lifting higher until it's empty. Would save you time using the ramp.
There are videos of automobile recycling yards , they're in other countries not in the US. There are machines called industrial shredders that literally chew apart entire automobiles and there are machines that crush them and rip out the engine block.
Excellent work! I wish you the absolute best on your business. If I could afford it, I'd run a transfer facility for recyclable items & donations of clothing, furniture & household goods. I started it 20 years ago, but it ate all of my money. Now I'm getting a little old for that, but still, if I could afford it, I'd have a bottle crusher that turns bottles into sand (not much glass gets recycled around here), and a Styrofoam machine that turns Styrofoam into polystyrene pellets. And, a fabric baler for recycling fabric (because now used clothing is sold cheap to 3rd world countries, where some is sold, but mostly it accumulates into mountains of garbage & polluted waterways. ) Take advantage of your youth & boldly go for it!
i used to work at vim recycle in Illinois i used to see all this and alot of other recycle, we used to take expired soda pop and ship it to an ethanol plant to turn into gas for your car, we also shipped out like 50 container of paper and 20 of plastic a week
if you built a panel that fit the inside back of the trailer, and attached a long chain to it that reached the end before filling the trailer, you could pull all of the cans out at once
put a wench on the back of your trailer, run four to six rails on the inside the make ya a grate that runs down the rails.... just push it to the back of the trailer before you blow all your cans in then ya can use the wench to pull em all out of the back of the truck on to the conveyor doesnt matter where the cable is, just pull em out slow..... skip the scoopin man
We had 2 trailers we used for cans. Our machine worked like yours does. We just hauled the trailers to the bigger yards and they would dig em out with a bobcat and toss the cans down in some big pit.
Great video! People talk about the cans being made into automobile parts and that just ain't true. I'm glad you stated that they will go to make more cans.
I didn't watch the full video, but yes, your old cans will end up as anything that can be made of aluminum. I've worked at facilities that their whole business is melting down scrap aluminum cans, rims, off cuts, dross, dust, millings, etc. into brand new aluminum sows. I've seen them toss these crushed can bails into the furnace. Those then can be shipped across the country to be processed into new sheet rolls, roll or bar stock. I have also worked at the places who receive these sows and melt them down to then form huge 20-30,000 pound ingots.
With additions to a melt, aluminum cans can be used to make high quality aluminum alloys. Most places that refine metals don't mearly melt them down. The have labs where samples from a melt can be tested in the middle of yhe process. Adjustments can be made to remove and add to create high quality products.
How about building a trailer tilt mechanism so that you can dump the trailer? Or, use a crane to hoist one end of the trailer to dump its contents in front of the bailer?
Can you do a video of using Spritter bar an a BIG Machine to just lift the trailer and dump it out.Know if you have that capability but I think you could
Where I live a 1000 to 1200 lb bale would be worth $3400.00 to $4080.00 at 34 cans per pound. We get $.10 per can (not because the aluminum is worth that much, but because every pop can sold has a .10 deposit)
Rig a plywood wall at the front of the trailer and attach four cables at each corner. Pull the “plunger” out and load them off the floor. That ramp is a death trap.
With spuds they use the open top trailers with a tarp on rollers the help keep anything from blowing or bouncing out, why wouldn't this be a viable transportation method?
Why not have the trailer back up to the conveyor, then rig up a rake system that goes into the van across the top under the roof of the van where it would drop down with it's own weight. You them have a motor or hydraulics to simply pull the rake back out which brings the cans...rinse and repeat until it is done. It doesn't have to be fancy, it just has to work.
Have you ever thought about getting an old potato trailer?. They have a conveyor belt floor with angled side floors, so everything slides off the walls.
A time and motion study expert would assess your processes and recommend ways to make the process more efficient saving time effort, money and labour hours.
Google the price of them. Walking floor trailers. You need to be sitting down when you do. On the landlord of a dude who is looking at buying a 48 foot silage trailer. They are pretty happy with them pricewise
I’m sure the “good idea fairy” has dropped off a lot of ideas to you in the comment section but I can see that you’re making smart improvements as your business grows. Dumping a ton of money into automation can be overly risky business wise so I hope you come across some decently priced things at auctions in your area. I commend you on how you modified some things to improve efficiency. Thanks for your time in making this video.
The aluminum company I work for is probably the one that takes your scrap aluminum and makes them into new cans. I don't work in that specific mill, but it's always fascinating to see the process of how they're made.
Neat to see how they do this, I've been recycling cans since 1986 and never knew the process they go thru....
In our county we need to recycle a lot of stuff and it is good to know how to reuse it. Companies like yours should get environmental awards. Thanks, it is nice to see how they do it, I have been recycling cans since 1988 but never knew they had to go through this process...
I came by your channel showing locomotive being chopped up and found it fascinating so I decided to check out more of your videos. 👍👍👍👍👍👍great videos
A fascinating and enjoyable video. In our county we are required to recycle many things and it's good to know how they can be reused. Companies like yours deserve an environmental award. Thank you.
Yeah but only 5% of plastic is actually recyclable
@josephcrowley3460 Well, every one of those aluminum cans he's recycling saves enough energy to run a TV for 3 hours. That means that it takes a lot of energy to turn raw materials into aluminum sheets, which are made into cans. It takes significantly less energy to recycle a can, to turn into a new can.
So, LET'S ASK HOW MANY POUNDS OF ALUMINUM ARE IN EACH TRUCKLOAD. MULTIPLY THAT BY 3, AND SEE HOW MUCH ENERGY HE HAS CONSERVED.
You guys are doing a good job
This is an awesome video! I don't think I've seen a better video explaining the process. You did a great job explaining things. I'd love to see more like this.
I think you need to move your can crusher and blower to the conveyor area so you can eliminate the trailer and skid steer process.
Came to say exactly the same! Seems like a lot of diesel burnt and duplicate handling of the materials.
Even loading the bags on to the trailer before being sorted would be more efficient
They use the bailer for many items like aluminum siding, extruded aluminum, radiators, copper tubing, etc. Probably isn’t practical in this case from where the scales are in relation to the bailer. At least that’s what I see at my scrapyard.
@@dr.a006 Thats makes sense. Thanks for the reply!
@@Cossie2kalso don’t get enough cans to bake them all the time
Another great video ,and of course another idea of how someone else does things. Our local scrapyard collects a lot of aluminum cans . Their set up is similar to yours, but after blowing the cans into and filling a trailer, they drop the trailer at the conveyer and bring a yard crane and put a chain around the kingpin on the trailer. Once the doors are opened, the crane operator just keeps lifting higher until it's empty. Would save you time using the ramp.
Great video. Simple and well explained.
I would like to see a video on the mill that grinds and separates flatten out cars!!! I have not found any on the tube.
There are videos of automobile recycling yards , they're in other countries not in the US. There are machines called industrial shredders that literally chew apart entire automobiles and there are machines that crush them and rip out the engine block.
Not very many because the hammer mill that shreds cars has no visible working parts, the car just disappears inside and comes out in chunks
Cool video. I always wondered what happens to my cans when I go to the bottle depot.
Excellent work! I wish you the absolute best on your business. If I could afford it, I'd run a transfer facility for recyclable items & donations of clothing, furniture & household goods. I started it 20 years ago, but it ate all of my money. Now I'm getting a little old for that, but still, if I could afford it, I'd have a bottle crusher that turns bottles into sand (not much glass gets recycled around here), and a Styrofoam machine that turns Styrofoam into polystyrene pellets. And, a fabric baler for recycling fabric (because now used clothing is sold cheap to 3rd world countries, where some is sold, but mostly it accumulates into mountains of garbage & polluted waterways. )
Take advantage of your youth & boldly go for it!
This will give recycling plants an excellent source of raw materials.
Thanks for the video great video
i used to work at vim recycle in Illinois i used to see all this and alot of other recycle, we used to take expired soda pop and ship it to an ethanol plant to turn into gas for your car, we also shipped out like 50 container of paper and 20 of plastic a week
Hello you export ubc can
if you built a panel that fit the inside back of the trailer, and attached a long chain to it that reached the end before filling the trailer, you could pull all of the cans out at once
How many bales do you get per trailer and what do they weigh? Thank you
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Brilliant Video.
Thanks for sharing.
put a wench on the back of your trailer, run four to six rails on the inside the make ya a grate that runs down the rails.... just push it to the back of the trailer before you blow all your cans in then ya can use the wench to pull em all out of the back of the truck on to the conveyor doesnt matter where the cable is, just pull em out slow..... skip the scoopin man
We had 2 trailers we used for cans. Our machine worked like yours does. We just hauled the trailers to the bigger yards and they would dig em out with a bobcat and toss the cans down in some big pit.
I loved watching this, the operation looked pretty slick to me, good job 👍
3:46 can it open from the other end? Two ramps have him go in one way and push them all out the other end?
I can tell from the sound that it is an opposed twin briggs
Great video! People talk about the cans being made into automobile parts and that just ain't true. I'm glad you stated that they will go to make more cans.
I didn't watch the full video, but yes, your old cans will end up as anything that can be made of aluminum. I've worked at facilities that their whole business is melting down scrap aluminum cans, rims, off cuts, dross, dust, millings, etc. into brand new aluminum sows. I've seen them toss these crushed can bails into the furnace. Those then can be shipped across the country to be processed into new sheet rolls, roll or bar stock. I have also worked at the places who receive these sows and melt them down to then form huge 20-30,000 pound ingots.
With additions to a melt, aluminum cans can be used to make high quality aluminum alloys. Most places that refine metals don't mearly melt them down. The have labs where samples from a melt can be tested in the middle of yhe process. Adjustments can be made to remove and add to create high quality products.
which Aluminum mill do you sell them to?
I saw a trucker doing dump runs. They had a trailer lift to empty the contents of the trailer
How about building a trailer tilt mechanism so that you can dump the trailer? Or, use a crane to hoist one end of the trailer to dump its contents in front of the bailer?
Whats the most cans a person has brought in...ive taken about 1500# at a time
Like 100 lbs or less.😅
DO we have to crush our cans or should we not do that?
How many bales can you do in a day 🤔
Would it not be possible to use a walking floor trailer to empty out directly onto the conveyor belt ?.
Dont no the distance but cant you blow the cans directly to the baler with a pipeline?
Do you use that bailer for other items too like siding, extruded, copper tubing, etc? I’ve noticed my scrap yard does that.
He does. We bale up copper, aluminum, cans and aluminum sheet, old sheet, aluminum siding, etc.
You need a barn tire to push cans to the conveyor and not worry about tearing up the concrete. Just an observation.
Why do the cans need to be shredded before melting?
Does the mill price include the CRV or do you collect that separately from the state?
Cool process. But why not back the trailer right up too the bailer? I’m sure you have a reason just wondering
Can-valanche! 😂 1:52
Thats cool love the recycle thanks for sharing
Should i sqish all the can or leave it like this???
Can you do a video of using Spritter bar an a BIG Machine to just lift the trailer and dump it out.Know if you have that capability but I think you could
My new Chevy truck seems to be made out of those cans very fragile
First time I've seen your videos. Very informative. Let's see what else ya got AFTER I like and subscribe!!
Thank You !
Well documented with clear and simple explanation and very interesting, subscribed because good videos are worth a watch.
We use a 50 ton car baler makes clean pop can bales.... if you bale them with out crushing cans beforehand the bale will come out cleaner
I work for Buyback center so I see almost all kinds of stuff
So can I legally sell condensers in NC
ALL FROM WINDOW UNITS
I DO CLEAN OUTS ON FORECLOSED HOUSES AND HAVE STACKS
BUT HEARD NEED A LICENSE
Very interesting thank you 👍
Thank you " Sir.
I wonder how it’s in done in California since I recycle them for the CRV value and not scrap value
Much more involved than people think.
thanks 4 sharing
Thank you for making this
Whe rare you Located?
Some cool stuff. I recycle my cans at local fire department.. they always thank me
Lot of " pennies" falling out of that truck.
And a piece of cardboard and duct tape
will fix that hole in the side of your trailer
in no time !
Very interesting clip, Thanks.
Where I live a 1000 to 1200 lb bale would be worth $3400.00 to $4080.00 at 34 cans per pound. We get $.10 per can (not because the aluminum is worth that much, but because every pop can sold has a .10 deposit)
I myself used to work at one , But where I worked at was a smaller place . We didn't have all the big equipment
We did that at my old job we recycled paper plastic and cardboard 👍👍
Why not back the trailer straight to the bailer.2 men shovel them straight out.wasted Diesel and Time.
Or a dump trailer, this is a ton of waste.
Yup. And I also drive skid loaders all day. He is going uphill with the bucket to high. He’s going to flip it over one day
This also turns into an t@m job. Now they are just losing money 💰
Yup, they’re aluminum cans, not steel ingots here … waste of energy and fuel , wow
Rig a plywood wall at the front of the trailer and attach four cables at each corner. Pull the “plunger” out and load them off the floor. That ramp is a death trap.
With spuds they use the open top trailers with a tarp on rollers the help keep anything from blowing or bouncing out, why wouldn't this be a viable transportation method?
you need a walking floor trailer and you can back right up to the belt and unload it
Different recycling centers use different ways to process aluminum cans. Some bale like this, others shred the cans
Cop: You been drinking tonight sir?
Me: No Sir
Cop: Step out of the vehicle sir
Me: 1:20
Looks like my back yard after a weekend bbq
Would a walking floor trailer be more viable, back up to conveyer belt and walk cans off , no skid steer needed
awesome dude, so entertaining, thanks for sharing, PS I subbed so I can watch the next part of the process
Is very Nature, Ini saya suka,..!!!.
Greetings from Russia, good job.
Why not have the trailer back up to the conveyor, then rig up a rake system that goes into the van across the top under the roof of the van where it would drop down with it's own weight. You them have a motor or hydraulics to simply pull the rake back out which brings the cans...rinse and repeat until it is done. It doesn't have to be fancy, it just has to work.
Backing a skid steer down a long ramp?
That’s not terrifying at all 😅
Is it a good thing to recycling aluminum? YES.
6:12 A box of Reynolds wrap goes tumbling over.
How many deposit cans get mixed in? In Mi. , we pay .10 cent deposit.
Yes I saw that Seinfeld episode😂
Only a few states have deposits.
Have you ever thought about getting an old potato trailer?. They have a conveyor belt floor with angled side floors, so everything slides off the walls.
A time and motion study expert would assess your processes and recommend ways to make the process more efficient saving time effort, money and labour hours.
A walking floor trailer would save alot of time and energy
Google the price of them. Walking floor trailers. You need to be sitting down when you do.
On the landlord of a dude who is looking at buying a 48 foot silage trailer.
They are pretty happy with them pricewise
Then buy him one.
New game: Count the number of Busch beer cans
Strikes me a walking floor trailer, wouldn't go a miss, in your yard.
Thats a lot of beer cans😮
If each soda can is 13 grams a 1000lb bale is 34,892 cans. If you redeemed the cans for $.05 each the bale is worth $1744.60
Your next trailer should be a live bottom
Hello, I have pressed aluminum waste, I want a buyer
like mr spock says on the star trek episodes ..... Ineresting .....
I work on these things for a living.
Seems to be about as much pop as I drink in a month 😂
If you let your workers drink beer on the job you could grab all those extra cans!
That's a lot of ten cent (beer) cans.
What is that you are pulling from his nose ? 😲
I still suspect that a lot of them end up in a landfill.
I like your can do attitude 🥴🍻
Great video
I've never seen that many empty beer cans before. Must have been one helluva party.
Soda and seltzer too.
Why a box truck instead of a dump truck?
Thanks!
Yes we can, we really can